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March 1948

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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John Ciardi
Patrick Anderson
Huacuja Armanda
Corinne Benson
Albert Cook

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Cover for Poetry Magazine, March 1948

Table of Contents

Vernon Watkins
- Time's Deathbed
Huacuja E. Armanda
- Nostalgia
Albert Cook
- War in the Winter Kingdom

Five Poems

David Cornel De Jong

Corinne Benson
- Proportion

Three Poems

Patrick Anderson

W. S. Merwin
- Variation on the Gothic Spiral

Two Poems

Oliver Hale
- The History
- The Brittle Glass

W. S. Graham
- At Whose Sheltering Shall the Day Sea
Henry W. Rago
- The Metaphor: Five Poems

Reviews

Stephen Spender
- The Power and the Hazard
Arthur Mizener
- The Equality of Poetry
Horace Gregory
- Clearing Ground
John Theobald
- That Strain Again
Morgan Blum
- Through the Glass Visor
William Poster
- Antithesis
Northrop Frye
- For Tory and Leftist
Clellon Holmes
- Forty Danes
John Ciardi
- Preview

Contributors
- - Vernon Watkins
  - Huacuja E. Armanda
  - Albert Cook
  - David Cornel De Jong
  - Corinne Benson
  - Patrick Anderson
  - W. S. Merwin
- - Oliver Hale
  - W. S. Graham
  - Henry W. Rago
  - Stephen Spender
  - Arthur Mizener
  - Horace Gregory
  - John Theobald
- - Morgan Blum
  - William Poster
  - Northrop Frye
  - Clellon Holmes
  - John Ciardi